Voice and video calls: New from Google and Viber

Google Hangouts and Viber launched both new features: voice calls over smartphone for the first, and video calls respectively.

To facilitate communication between professionals and business travelers. By merging Google Hangouts and Google Voice, the Mountain View company now offers users to make voice calls over the Internet from a smartphone. Google says that these calls are free between Hangouts users. A service unlike that already offered by Skype. Google also plays on the opening by adding this feature on Android and iOS devices.

For its part, messaging app Viber launches into video calls. To use it, just download the app available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry, among others, or update. For professionals, this is an additional solution for conferences and meetings on video.